Tignes may have the longest ski season in all of France—with nine months of powder for skiers to carve—but it hasn't stopped the Alpine resort from wishing for the return of a year-round ski season. All it takes is a little inspiration from Dubai: Tignes plans to build a snow dome complete with a 1,300-foot indoor ski slope over a mile up the slalom piste near the Val Claret village. "The Grande Motte glacier has already lost 30 percent of its ski area, so we have decided to react by creating an indoor ski slope," Jean-Christophe Vitale, the mayor of Tignes, told the Telegraph. But the ski slope isn't the only new addition: The dome will also feature an indoor surf center and shopping mall. Wait, are we sure this isn't Dubai?

The Ski Line, set to open in 2018, was approved by local officials last week and fundraising for the $65 million complex will begin shortly. In part due to the shrinking ski season and rising temperatures, the construction of the snow dome will also help the resort attract more athletes and professional skiers looking to keep up their skills in the off-season.

About a three-hour drive east of Lyon, Tignes has faced pushback in the days after the project's approval for its so-called Disneyfication of the area. "The Ski Line is a kind of Disneyland theme park. A line has been crossed," Hervé Billard of FRAPNA, a local nature preservation agency, told The Times. "It does not respect the mountain."